Re: “FBI searches home, office of former Trump adviser<\/a>,” Aug. 23 news story<\/p>\n When President Donald Trump was interviewed about the FBI raid on John Bolton’s house on Friday, he was wearing a new cap with the printing “Trump was right about everything!” That is fitting because in Rick Atkinson’s “Liberation Trilogy” book series about the U.S. army in Europe in World War II, he relates how they encountered many posters in Italy saying, “Mussolini is always right.” And in Germany they encountered posters saying, “Hitler is always right.” Seems to be a pattern.<\/p>\n Gary Waldman, Aurora<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “Trump adds cities for possible deployment,” Aug. 25 news story<\/p>\n Among cities with a reported violent crime rate as high or higher than Chicago and New York are Memphis, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Cleveland. Why isn\u2019t the president making the Republican governors of those states the same threat of National Guard deployment he is making to the governors of Maryland, Illinois, and New York?<\/p>\n If he did, would the Republican governors in those states have any different reaction than those of the Democratic governors?<\/p>\n Shouldn\u2019t Vice President JD Vance (Ohio) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (Louisiana) openly welcome the president\u2019s help to reduce crime in the above cities in their state?<\/p>\n Curt Anderson, Broomfield<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “Colorado faces 28% spike in costs<\/a>,” July 22 news story<\/p>\n The shock of large increases in Colorado health care premiums for the upcoming enrollment period is sad on so many levels. The Big Beautiful Bill that Congress passed and the president signed largely eliminated federal premium subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) that have kept premiums halfway reasonable in order to help finance tax cuts that disproportionally benefit the wealthy and large corporations.<\/p>\n Republicans have been clear for years that they wanted to eliminate or neuter the ACA and make these tax cuts permanent, and now they have.<\/p>\n For those who don\u2019t get involved or at least pay attention to politics, my message is: If you don\u2019t make sure you have a seat at the table, you are on the menu — chomp chomp.<\/p>\n John W Thomas, Fort Collins<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “Trump’s performances with leaders reminded me why I’m a proud neocon<\/a>,” Aug. 20 commentary<\/p>\n In his article explaining neoconservative values, referring to the war in Ukraine, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens states that “if disorder goes unchecked, or if aggression is rewarded, in one part of the world, it will encourage disorder and aggression in other parts.”<\/p>\n I have to wonder if the same applies to Israel. Stephens is a vocal supporter of Israel. Israel’s unchecked aggression against the Palestinians is causing death, displacement and starvation. He is right that such behavior in one place will encourage it in other places. Since America supports Israel with money and weapons, it will be hard for us to condemn the next genocide in Africa, or India’s persecution of Muslims, or China’s aggression against Taiwan.<\/p>\n If neocon values are worth applying to the world, they should be applied consistently.<\/p>\n Steve Laudeman, Denver<\/em><\/p>\n Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns, editorials and more. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online<\/a> or check out our guidelines<\/a> for how to submit by email or mail.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other message on the president’s hat Re: “FBI searches home, office of former Trump adviser,” Aug. 23 news story When President Donald Trump was interviewed about the FBI raid on John Bolton’s house on Friday, he was wearing a new cap with the printing “Trump was right about everything!” That is fitting because in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How would blue-state governors feel about deployment?<\/h4>\n
The spike in health care premiums<\/h4>\n
What’s bad for the goose …<\/h4>\n